meta
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Bill Pay itself was extremely meta and self-aware, a post-postmodern pageant that would have given David Foster Wallace an aneurysm.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026
“The meta problem is, hey, models are going outside the bounds of what they should be doing, and doing actual cyberattacks, which I would think is in the public interest to know.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
“It’s kind of meta, isn’t it?” she says with a laugh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Or, at least that’s how I’d pitch a meta horror-thriller about watching Netflix’s abysmal new horror-thriller, “The Whisper Man,” a film so painfully, obviously bad that even talking about how terrible it is seems redundant.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
The whole thing is too meta for real me.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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It is now and then stated that the metae between strips have been plowed up.
From The Enclosures in England An Economic Reconstruction by Harriett Bradley
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